Introduction: the Badiouian-Zizekian politburo : political interventions in the shadow of Lacan -- Alain Badiou : from event to act -- The quick and the dead : Badiou and the split speeds of transformation -- One must have confidence that the other does not exist : select preconditions for events and acts in contemporary circumstances -- Slavoj Zizek : from act to event -- The cynic's fetish : Zizek and the dynamics of belief -- From the spectacular act to the vanishing act : the politics of Lacanian theory -- Appendix A: "Let a thousand flowers bloom!" : some brief remarks on and responses to Zizek's "Badiou: notes from an ongoing debate" -- Appendix B: Slavoj Zizek, "An answer to two questions".
